Magazine-gun



(No Model.)

A. P. BELLINGER.

MAGAZINE GUN.

No.251,s44. Patented Dec. 2?;1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

ARTHUR F. BELLING'ER, OF MOHAWK, NEW YORK.

MAGAZINE-GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,344, dated December27, 1881. Application filed September 13, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR F. BELLINGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mohawk, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Magazine'Guns; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to that class of detachable magazines for breechloading firearms in which the cartridges are placed side by side and fedlaterally therefrom to a loading device connected with the gun.

The object of the invention is to so construct such magazines that whenattached to a gun the automatic loading thereof from the magazine maybesuspended andrenewed atpleasure.

To this end my invention consists in so applying the magazine that itmay be adjusted on the gun with respect to the loadingdevice for puttingthe exposed cartridge either in the range or out of the range of suchloading device.

1 will proceed to describe my improvement embodied in the best form atpresent known to me, and have illustrated the same in the annexeddrawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of somuch of a breech-loadin g bolt-gun as is necessary to illustrate myinvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the magazine in a differentplane of adjustment. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the magazine.

The same letters of reference are used in all the figures-in thedesignation of identical parts.

I have illustrated my improvement in connection with what is known as aLee gun but it should be understood that I do not confine myself to itsapplication to that particular style of gun, as my said improvement maybe readily adapted to any breech-loading gun wherein the cartridges aretaken successively from a laterally-feeding magazine and automaticallytransferred to the barrel.

Heretofore it has been'the practice in using this class of magazine-gunsto provide a cutoff adapted to be interposed between the open side ofthe magazine and the automatic loading device when it was desired thatthe feedin g action of the magazine be suspended. By the use of myimprovement the necessity of using such a cut-off is avoided, thus doingaway with one of the moving parts of the gun, which is a greatdesideratum.

The magazine A, in the illustrated example of my invention, is providedat its rear edge with two projections, a and a, one above the other, byeither of which the magazine may be supported on the lug b of aspring-catch, B, pivoted on the lock-case or some fixed part of the gun,and preferably projecting within the trigger-guard, so that it may beconveniently operated by the forefinger of the user. The upperprojection, a, on the magazine is beveled, as shown, in order that saidmagazine may be forced into position and locked without the necessity ofoperating the catch B with the finger. The lug b of the catch will beforced into the notch between the projections a and a. by means ofspring I), so that unless the catch B is operated by hand the magazinecan only be forced into its lowermost position in the gun. In thisposition (shown in Fig. 2) of the magazine the gun is adapted to be usedas an ordinary hand-loadin g breech-loader, as the bolt 0 of the gunwill in its movement back and forth clear the rim of the uppermostcartridge in the magazine and not feed it to the gun-barrel. To placethe magazine in position to feed cartridges to the barrel, thespring-catch B is retracted towithdraw its lug b from the notch betweenprojectionsaand a on the magazine, and said magazine is then forcedupward sufficiently to permit lug b to engage the under side of theprojection on. When the magazine is supported in this position the rimof its uppermost cartridge will be in the path of .the bolt 0 of thegun, which will upon each forward movement feed a cartridge to thebarrel.

1 do not confine myself to the special means hereinbefore described forsupporting and lockin g the magazine in a position nearer to or fartherfrom the loading device, as it will be perceived that the object may beattained in many different ways and through various instrumentalities.

It will be understood that the improvement described in the foregoingspecification may be applied to various styles of guns and pisclaimis 1. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of thereciprocating loading device of a breech-loading fire-arm, the magazineadapted to be adjusted so as to place its outermost cartridge eitherinto or out of the path of the loading device, and means for retainingsaid magazine in either of the positions to which it may be adjusted.

2. .The combination, substantially as before In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR F. BELLINGER.

lVitnesses JOHN MCCHESNEY, WALTER WHITFIELD.

